The fitness center at my work has been scheduling lots of classes I like lately: kickboxing, yoga, pilates, and a new cardio/strength class they call “Fit Happens.” The good news about that is that I’ve been feeling a lot better lately, physically, despite not seeing any movement on the scale or in the fit of my clothes.
The bad news is that I haven’t found another good time to write. Lunchtime is really my best option lately, what with Connor taking karate after dinner two days a week and me wanting to up my game as far as my personal habits.
I should elaborate.
Instead of deciding on a New Year’s Resolution, I opted to set myself monthly habits and challenges — I think I’ve mentioned that before. This month, I’m working on cleaning the clutter I’ve strewn about the house. Does that take the entire hour I get to myself in the evening? No, not really, especially since I’ve only required myself to clean for ten minutes at a time (which usually stretches to at least 15, since I need to finish up what I’ve started). After I’m done, though, I find beached on the couch, watching YouTube: Today I Found Out, or Origin of Everything, or Melly Sews, or something from the deaf community or a fashion YouTuber, just because those topics are fascinating and outside of my normal interactions.
What all this comes down to is that I have all these topics in my head — stuff Connor has done, wins and frustrations at work, vacation prep, sewing projects, yadda yadda yadda — and no good brain time to get it out.
Slight tangent: honestly, I don’t need a blog that others can read anymore, but I love the idea of having a journal that’s accessible to me at any time day or night, anywhere I have an internet connection, that’s indexed and quickly searchable. And if I have that, I’m not going to write anything I’d want to keep secret, even if I have it password protected, because The Internet.
So, yeah, I just wrote some 300 words about why I haven’t blogged much lately. I hate it when people do that. I guess that was something I needed to get out of my head, though, so it’s legit.